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American Way: Those Above and Below
John Ridley
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Description for American Way: Those Above and Below
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The Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave returns for an all-new chapter in his alternate history of The American Way!
In 1962 Jason Fisher was given astonishing powers by the United States government--powers he used to defend the nation as the New American. He and his teammates in the Civil Defense Corps were real-life superheroes.
Except that it was all a fraud. A conspiracy. And now, 10 years after the CDC was torn apart by racism, infighting and murder, the Corps' surviving members find themselves pulled in very different directions. Missy Devereaux--a.k.a. Ole Miss--is transitioning from the ... Read more
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave returns for an all-new chapter in his alternate history of The American Way!
In 1962 Jason Fisher was given astonishing powers by the United States government--powers he used to defend the nation as the New American. He and his teammates in the Civil Defense Corps were real-life superheroes.
Except that it was all a fraud. A conspiracy. And now, 10 years after the CDC was torn apart by racism, infighting and murder, the Corps' surviving members find themselves pulled in very different directions. Missy Devereaux--a.k.a. Ole Miss--is transitioning from the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Vertigo
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781401278359
SKU
9781401278359
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About John Ridley
John Ridley is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. After both writing and directing his film debut, the 1997 crime thriller Cold Around the Heart, Ridley went on to write the novels Love Is a Racket and Everybody Smokes in Hell. ... Read more
Reviews for American Way: Those Above and Below
"Fisher's struggle to fight the good fight, even in the face of racism and the anger of his own community, gives a powerful focal point to an examination of racial dynamics as painfully relevant now as they were in the 1970s." — Booklist Starred Review